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enough with affirmative action bs! there are plenty of very well qualified people who can contribute more to a school than diversity can but are not getting in bc they're white and come from the suburbs.

Diversity in culture is one form that may be lacking from institutions of higher education. However, I think intellectual and political diversity is something else that needs to be looked at. College campuses are predominantly very liberal and conservatives are the great minority and are oftened stifled and intimidated into silence in the classroom by students and professors alike. If students want to get a truly diverse education, how about increasing this type of diversity and allowing for a truly open forum. Diversity in race is not the only answer.

The problem with education within the Empire is like that of justice. One can buy all the education and justice you want. Yes, it is not as blatanted as the days of Howard Hughs attending Caltech without graduating from high school (or Caltech) but the bias still remains.
I also think it highly insulting to say that UCONN wants minority students to attend because Johnny in the suburbs needs the experence of talking and being with non-white people so he can have some understanding of minority people when he enters the so called "diverse workforce".
It is things like the no child left behind act and the continuing decline of the working peoples real wages that skew the educational enviroment. Minority people are overwhelmingly working class in America and still face discrimination because of their color in jobs and housing.
The reason Afirmative Action is still needed is because people like RW remain in positions of power within the Empire engaging in continuing discrimination.

There are no laws that require an employer to hire an unqualified applicant or that a university admit an unqualified student. If a university has 1000 freshman seats 2000 apply and 1500 are qualified should the university offer seats to enough minority students so that they make up a percentage that corresponds to their make up in society? Or should they just look at test scores until they reach a number that will fill a 1000 seats. I say yes to the first and no to the second. In the steel industry black people held the most dangerous and low paying jobs. They were always passed over for the skilled trades or management jobs on the grounds that whites were more qualified even if they were qualified for the job. The companies signed consent decrees that they would promote qualified minorities at higher rate in order to make up for past discrimination. This is what affirmative action is all about. It is not reverse discrimination although its purpose is to reverse past discrimination.